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Yes. Only discovered as an extant species in 1994, having previously been known only from fossils.
greensurfingbear
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
taken on a guided walk on the hills today
Orric
Maybe it was a tad vague..... It's remains of an Iron Age round house that hadn't been recorded until last year. We went on a history wall at work today looking at roman earth works and Iron Age settlements
Orric
Interesting. Nice post and picture Greensurfingbear 
. Possibly we were confused because the original post said that man made objects should not be used in this thread. You obviously didn't know that, which is okay. No harm done.
I'm putting up for consideration this:
. Possibly we were confused because the original post said that man made objects should not be used in this thread. You obviously didn't know that, which is okay. No harm done.I'm putting up for consideration this:
Interesting. Nice post and picture Greensurfingbear
I'm putting up for consideration this:
​Dandelion?
Yes, but which one of the 400+ UK subspecies is it?
And what about the insect on it?
Shrill carder bee. Dandelion subspecies? Eerrrrrm... Taraxacum WhereHarvestmanlives-um.
It isn't a shrill carder bee. I've never seen one of those, although I've just joined a local scheme to survey for them, since they are rare in the UK, and declining rapidly, but known still to occur on the flower-rich grasslands near the coast in the south of my home county. (Good grief, what a terrible sentence!)
Give up on the dandelion. The rules say the poster has to know the correct answer, and I don't.
Give up on the dandelion. The rules say the poster has to know the correct answer, and I don't.
greensurfingbear
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Oops didn't know that...... Errrrm it was made by women?
Sorry..... Will do better
Orric
Probably, if the men could get away with it.
Seriously, this thread needs more contributors, so very welcome mate.
greensurfingbear
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
That's quite amazing. I just had a bit of a read about it. It just goes to show that we humans don't know everything yet about our surroundings
Interesting. Nice post and picture Greensurfingbear
Yes, that did throw me off a bit too when trying to figure out what we were supposed to be looking for. Still happy to see it though, it's a fascinating photo!
I'm sure you're right
. A great photo though, seeing that sort of history at your feet must be very nice.
The flower is Cuckoo flower, lady's smock, Cardamine pratensis, in its slightly unusual tussock form (which I have only seen once, but that was in the past few days).
I think.
I think.
Yes. Rather than make you go to species I will give you that. Andrena cineraria, the Ashy mining bee. Quite a distinctive species, and not uncommon, but I hadn't seen it before this week.
greensurfingbear
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
I had them pegged as cuckoo flowers but the tussock growth had me pondering too!
I'd guess at a mining bee too
Orric
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